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Questions about the built-in search functionality of this site powered by ElasticSearch.
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Results not shown when matching words are in "quotes"
Just a heads up that a search change rolled out today which did a few useful things; one of which was making this work correctly. … You should be experiencing a much smoother search - and we're not done yet! …
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Weird results from search
What happens is the search engine takes your query "radial decreasing maximal" and says "OK, search title, body, and tags for these terms, and a match is defined as any post that has all of these terms … There are options to search title, body, and tags as one large field (AKA "match if all of the query terms appear in at least one field but they don't have to all be in the same field" AKA "make the three …
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Search doesn't find text in spoiler blocks
I'm not sure that we want to make this change, just because people might find spoilers in search by accident (which defeats the purpose really). … Another option is to make the text in the spoiler searchable, but not display spoilers in the search results. This is definitely possible (if the community wants it). …
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Search is too accent-sensitive
We resolved a lot of search issues earlier in the year and I just now noticed this post.
As of the beginning of 2015, we have internationalized AKA "case folded" most fields that we search on. … So, while a search for qué and a search for que do produce different result sets, the additional results found in the que query are because they match on code blocks while qué did not (thought both queries …
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Can I search for a quoted word?
Search is mostly about inverted indexes. We index a post by the words in that post. … One thing we do is stem: searching becomes search so that a search for either term contains this result. This makes for a better experience. …
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Accepted
Code block markdown missing from question & answer summaries
Please check now and you'll find that code once again appears in search results. …
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stackexchange.com search no longer working
We've updated the way we use Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) to comply with their new APIs. It is now working again. Cheers! …
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Have the Dialectical Differences shortcoming been fixed in SE's Search Engine?
Making the terms equivalent reduces relevance but increases recall, which is not always a good thing (more noise in your search results). … Both results sets contain the same questions and answers that match on either term, but we also search code blocks and code blocks are treated as a special case. …
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